How many remain eligible for private insurance through Maryland exchange?

Maryland Health Connection has cut by 40 percent the number of Marylanders who were eligible for private insurance coverage when the state marketplace began three years ago. That leaves about 240,000 individuals who remain eligible for private coverage through MarylandHealthConnection.gov An estimated 405,000 were eligible when the marketplace began in 2013.

SHADAC applied Maryland’s 2016 enrollment data to Census regions known as PUMAs (Public Use Microdata Areas) to assess how many eligible Marylanders remain. It excluded estimates of unauthorized immigrants and of uninsured workers who declined qualified health coverage from their employer — individuals who would not be eligible for financial assistance under the Affordable Care Act. It included adults under 65 with private non-group health insurance and incomes above 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level who could be eligible for financial assistance through Maryland Health Connection.

SHADAC notes that its analysis is a high-level indicator — not an absolute accounting — of the remaining eligible in a given area. This chart details SHADAC’s breakdown by PUMA of the remaining eligible uninsured population throughout Maryland: